Hi people This question follows on from a post I made regarding a hard drive death and backup problems, I made a little script that tar and gzip's each of the root directories in order. At the point of /usr which is a very large one I get the following error /root/fullsysbackup.sh: line 30: 18492 File size limit exceededcp /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz
When checking the file size I see that it is approx 2.1Gb and to be exact = 2^31 -1 After a fair bit of checking around into possible causes of the error [samba, cp, backup box runs XP, and finally reiserfs] I discovered from the reiser site that it has a file size limit of ... 2^31 -1. However this seemed strange but I accepted it. I asked a friend who is of the beleif that reiserfs 3.5 had the limit but 3.6 does not. Now for the silly question of the day, how do I know what version of reiserfs I have "installed"? OK well it is possible that I have got the wrong end of the stick at this point and indeed the file size limit is 2.1Gb, the solution would be to split the tgz on backup but I also have some rather large movie type files and Iwould rather have a fs that works for me rather than the other way around. I dont want to turn this thread into everyones favorite "which fs for me?" but any simplistic advice on the status of reiserfs file size limits and such would be helpful. stu ps. Comon England and up the Aussies :) we won the ashes!!!!! pps. Its a cricket thing ^^ ;) -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
